Facebook is a great site for keeping in touch with friends, colleagues, and for networking. It is also a great place to share information in a creative way using the Facebook applications provided by Facebook or built by Facebook users.

We liked the concept so much that we decided to give it a try. Now, any Facebook user can use his or her Facebook user name and password to logon to Floxter. On top of that, Floxter users who also have a Facebook account can now install the “Happy Floxter!” application which will show how much of the reward received, by solving tasks on Floxter, they have donated to a Floxter charity partner.

Floxter users so far have already donated a total amount of more than $2,000! And, we hope that this is only the start…

We currently have a few different tasks online; an interesting one is about categorizing ads. You are asked to pick the best topic category for an ad based on what it tries to sell. You can choose from a list or tree of categories. Another task that’s online is about judging photos and deciding whether they qualify as picture postcard motives – e.g. a picture with your girlfriend or boyfriend on it and the Eiffel Tower in the background would probably not qualify as a picture postcard of Paris.

Anyways, go try it out yourself. It’s a great way to kill some time on Sundays and to make some money at the same time – or even better, donate it to one of our charity partners!

We was told that a Floxter blog was long overdue – and we agree. So, here it is… we carved out some time from our schedules and will make it a habit to keep the blogger world uptodate on what is happening at Floxter.

Most existing efforts use specialised, custom “crowdsourcing” functions, tailored to solve the need of a specific application. Floxter is a general platform. You can request virtually any type of feedback from humans. Just post a task, define an appropriate reward and someone out there will solve the task for you.

There are various challenges such a general platform needs to address and Floxter has addressed the major ones already. However, it would be bold to claim we’ve solved all of them – we’re getting there though! We will discuss the one or other challenges and how we solve them in this blog at some point. In the meantime, try it out yourself!